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“A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9c38ae47656752c5eea5bfb7a54853eda8391caf076b9ca181deef9311dd1ae6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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